Journey Off The Map More Decorating Ideas! VBS 2015

May 11, 2015

Well before you know it, summer will be here and for many of us that means it will be time for Vacation Bible School or VBS!! My husband has already made a few things for Journey Off the Map (the name of the VBS material we are using this year) and I wanted him to do a post today about the bright and cheery tissue paper flowers he added to the set design he made at church. These are not difficult at all to do and since he is an IT Engineer, he posted the directions with great detail!! So hope you can use these instructions to make your decorations even more colorful with that rainforest feel!! Enjoy!

Here are the instructions from Dan my Man:

I wanted to add more color to our ‘Journey Off The Map’ set so I decided to make some bright colored Rain Forrest flowers. I used the directions I found in the Decorating Made Easy manual. I came up with the idea to add a base to the flowers to make them look like they were growing out of the ground as a flowering bush. Above is a picture of our finished product. Below are detailed instructions on how we did it.

The Tissue Paper Flowers

1. I bought the brightest colored tissue paper I could find. A Hallmark pack from Walmart, then I saw the same paper at Kroger a dollar cheaper!

2. Following the directions in the Lifeway Decorating Made Easy guide, I used as many different combinations of colors as I could think of. Loved them all!

3. For the flower pictured I chose hot pink for the outside petals, lime green for the inside petals and turquoise for the middle of the flower.

4. Lay out 4 sheets of hot pink tissue paper for the outside petals.

5. Trim off about 5 inches from 4 sheets of lime green tissue paper for the inside petals.

6. Take one piece of turquoise tissue paper and cut in into 2 pieces.

7. Center the 4 sheets of lime green tissue on the hot pink paper and then the 2 sheets of turquoise paper on top of the lime green paper.

8. Accordion fold all 3 colors together.

9. Unfold enough to take the turquoise sheets out.

10. Refold the turquoise paper and fold in half and fray by making long cuts about 3 inches long from the outside edges toward the center.

11. Take out the lime green inside petal sheets and refold, then round the edges to make a petal shape.

12. Refold the outside petals and round the edges to make a petal shape.

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